LA
FONT DES HORTS RETIREMENT HOME, HYÈRES
JUNE 1973
SELECTED
FOR DOCUMENTA 6, KASSEL, 1997
The
project constitutes an example of Joseph Beuys’s concept of
the “social sculpture.” The elderly working-class residents
of a retirement home are empowered to cast a critical and imaginative
eye on life inside a closed institution widely considered to be
both regimented and stagnant through the use of video.